Wilde

This film biography of Oscar Wilde is a showcase for Stephen Fry. He not only looks like Wilde, he breaths life into the many passages from Wilde's writings that are woven into the screenplay. The difference between reading Wilde and... Full review

Cinematic biographies, even when they are based on a work of non-fiction, are generally fictional in form and often follow an established literary structure. (The filmed non-fiction, documentary-style biography seems, for some reason, to be more suited to the television... Full review

I saw this film for the first time over the weekend, drawn to it I'm ashamed to say for the fact that it contained Orlando Bloom's debut appearance, all one line of it. I was pleasantly surprised to discover Jude... Full review

This film was one of the best to appear in the late 90s, and is a sensitive, involving, honest and moving biography of one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, the infamous Oscar Wilde.More realistic and better played... Full review

Playwright, celebrated wit and persecuted homosexual Oscar Wilde is excellently portrayed by Stephen Fry in this biopic but without a hint of the expected waspishness. Instead, we see Wilde as a kindly, sensitive, almost avuncular man. What's more surprising is... Full review

Stephen Fry is well cast as the 19th-century Irish author/playwright Oscar Wilde. This biopic deals frankly with his homosexuality and torment of being attracted to young men. Married with children, Wilde entered a passionate love affair with Lord 'Bosie' Douglas(Jude... Full review

"Wilde" is an elegant film with sterling performances by Fry, the title character, and a superb supporting cast. However, "Wilde" is also a shaded and skewed partial portrait of the 19th century playwright, poet, and master of the epigram. The... Full review

The acting in this film was superb. As had many viewers--I suspect-- I had only seen Stephen Fry in the Blackadder and Wodehouse series. How delightful to find another actor intelligent and flexible enough to range from Melchett to Oscar... Full review

this film is so sad and stephen fry is wonderful in his sensitive and moving portrayal of oscar wilde. jude law was outstanding as the selfish and spoilt bosie and his talents, combined with fry's, led to a wonderful pair... Full review

Wilde is a film about a man's passions destroying his life. Oscar Wilde was a very interesting man and discovered his dormant homosexuality late in life. The film was very tragic in a lot of ways. The love story between... Full review

Jeremy Skidmore's very fine staging of Moises Kaufman's innovative 1997 courtroom drama offers no substantive new clues to the puzzle.....the narrative traces the bizarre twists in one of the first great trials of the age of the scandal sheet.....it is suggested that the authorities had no urgent desire to prosecute Wilde....At the play's conclusion, there's one final tidbit from the writer's marvelous work, recited to us in total darkness..... ... Full Review

As befits a film that deals with a great artist, the film is lovely, with excellent cinematography and wonderful costumes that perfectly re-create the atmosphere of British society in the late 19th century. Final thoughts Wilde is a finely-crafted film that boasts superb acting in both leading and supporting roles; it will be enjoyable both for viewers who are unfamiliar with Wilde and those who already know a great deal about his life and work, as I did. ... Full Review

He's right not only in appearance but in how he makes you believe he could have written Wilde's famous barbs and also in how he conveys a longing torment over his various desires. Jude Law as Bosie is believably attractive , for instance, while always looking cuttingly capable of malice which adds a frisson to his relationship with Wilde. ... Full Review

Shame also to any movie that so wastes Vanessa Redgrave, who has a too-small role as Wilde's mother. Wilde" is rated R for explicit, simulated gay sex, male nudity, profanity, vulgar sex talk and double-entendres, and some violent confrontations. ... Full Review

Because Wilde was a dandy and a wit, as well as a clever writer of daring plays, any actor who plays him must have charm. Fry declaims Wilde's best one-liners with aplomb; when Fry says "The truth is never simple and rarely pure," it's been said. ... Full Review

PROVINCETOWN - Oscar Wilde won great success with plays that wittily and amusingly mocked British society, which when it had a chance stood up and knocked him down. ... Full Article

STEPHEN Fry, who has recently lost nearly six stone in weight, says that listening to audiobooks while he walks everywhere helps considerably. Here he reads six of OSCAR WILDE'S SHORT STORIES (Harper, 2CDs ?12.99, ?9.09 digital download www.audible.co.uk ) -... ... Full Article

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"Nearly sat on a scorpion in the WC," wrote Walter Sickert from Venice in 1895, to his friend and fellow artist Philip Wilson Steer. "Thought of you at once: of what you would say." ... Full Article

Richard Strauss's opera Salome , based on the play by Oscar Wilde, created a sensation at its Dresden debut in 1905 - thanks to a cutting-edge melding of a gripping text with harmonically adventurous music. ... Full Article

O ne of the subtler pleasures of the movie Milk is its vivid portrayal of those small rooms where the conspirators of the gay liberation movement first came together. ... Full Article